Sandro Botticelli

by Zollner, Frank

• ISBN13: 9783791332727
• ISBN10: 3791332724
• Edition: Boxed
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-31
• Publisher: Prestel Pub

Summary

"Sandro Botticelli ranks as one of the most outstanding artists of the Renaissance. Regarded as the inventor of the mythology painting and the creator of the first life-sized nude in modern painting, Botticelli also painted numerous portraits of the leading figures in Florentine society and witnessed the upsurge of religious fanaticism, channelling it productively into his work. Our notion of Renaissance art has been shaped by his key works Primavera and the Arrival (or Birth) of Venus. This volume, which provides the most detailed catalogue raisonne of Botticelli's paintings to date, examines every aspect of his creative output from the most recent methodical point of view."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Frank Zollner has been Professor of Art History at the University of Leipzig since 1996.

Table of Contents

Early work	p. 9
Initial success in Florence	p. 29
Botticelli as portraitist	p. 47
Primavera and her counterpart : Minerva and the centaur	p. 65
Botticelli as frescoist in Rome : the Sistine Chapel	p. 85
Violence against woman : the tale of Nastagio degli Onesti	p. 101
The later mythology paintings	p. 119
Late altarpieces	p. 143
The late work : the end of time and the end of art?	p. 161
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